Below are the websites that you may use for your profile research. Be sure to explore links from each of these websites; following the links will allow you to find out even more information on different types of people that lived during the early-to-mid 19th century! Please don't use any other websites for your research and creation of your four profile options. Enjoy yourselves!
1. http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/campbell/#hannah
This site is about Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, two African-American female slaves who worked on a plantation in Virginia. A remarkable feature of this site is that we have letters that were written by these women describing their lives--something that is very rare for historians to have today.
2.http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/family/background.cfm
This website talks about different types of family structures in Colonial Williamsburg. The site discusses issues such as gender roles, relationships between children and parents, and how traditions differed amongst different families. There are many links from this site for your exploration!
3. http://r2.gsa.gov/fivept/fphome.htm
This site is more difficult to navigate than the previous two sites. But if you are a fan of cities, New York City, or archaeology, you might especially like this site. I would recommend following the "tour guide" buttons that say "next stop on tour" towards the bottom of each page.
4. http://www.economicadventure.org/family/ML1810.pdf
This is a very detailed, but fairly easy to read, document that includes a lot of information about how people lived in the early 1800s. If you are interested in details about every day life--how they made things, what illnesses they had, etc--then you will enjoy this site.
5. http://www.nps.gov/acad/forteachers/upload/edguide_carroll.pdf
This tells the story about several generations of one family that live in Maine beginning in 1814. Please only read the first part, John and Rachel Carroll, 1825-1870. This is the first few pages of the document. Great details about life on a farm during this time.
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This is a site that provides information about a young girl who is an indentured servant. It includes the document outlining the agreement for her indenture, and some background about indentured servitude. If you find this issue interesting, also try the following site, which includes a letter written by an indentured servant girl to her father in 1756:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5796
7.http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/family/black.cfm">http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/family/black.cfm">http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/family/black.cfm
This provides more information on slave families in Colonial Williamsburg, including a broad overview of their experiences. There are other links on the left side of the page for more information.
8. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2959.html
This site is about the removal of the Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, Chicasaw, and Seminole from parts of the American Southeast, including Georgia and Alabama, beginning around 1814. Towards the end of this overview, the Trail of Tears is discussed. Over 4000 Native Americans died during this forced removal from their lands.
9. http://www.cerritos.edu/soliver/Student%20Activites/Trail%20of%20Tears/web/cherokee%20women.htm#_edn1
This is a very interesting website about the Cherokee women's response to removal policies of the U.S. government. The Cherokee women repeatedly petitioned the government in protest of these policies. The site includes the original text of these petitions.
10. http://www.texasalmanac.com/history/timeline/early/
This website has many different links on the left side, but this particular page is a time line of Texas history. For those of you interested in Mexican history, this is a great website to start.
11. http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/staugustine/index.asp?unit=5
This website is about St. Augustine, Florida, and includes information about the many different groups of people who lived and interacted there. If you choose "exodus" or "new arrivals" and then click on "people" you will find profiles of a few different types of people who lived there.
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